Fall-rope carrier and operating device therefor.



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A. LAMBERT & J. G}. DELANEY. FALL ROPE CARRIER AND. OPERATING DEVICE THEREFOR.

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ASHER LAMBERT AND JAMES G. DELANEY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

FALL-ROPE CARRIER AND OPERATING DEVICE THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 722,518, dated March 10, 1903. Application filed November 13', 1902. Serial No. 131,226. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known'that we, ASHER LAMBERT and JAMES G. DELANEY, citizens of the United States, and residents of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have. invented new and Improved Fall-Rope Carriers and Operating Devices Therefor, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to the fall-rope carriers of cableways in whichth'e fall-rope extends at both sides of the carriage. In said cableway it is desirable that the fall-rope have support at both sides of the carriage, as will more clearly appear hereinafter, and our invention provides for this purpose a novel arrangement of carriers and a button-rope therefor.

The invention consists in the novel features hereinafter particularly described, and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of a cableway system having fall-rope carriers and a buttonrope arranged in accordance with our present invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary side view showing, on a larger scale, a portion of said cablewa'y; and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but shows the carriers in a changed position resulting from a movement of the carriage from the position shown in Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the fall-rope carrier.

Our invention is illustrated in connection with a cableway having suitable towers A A at the terminals of the cableway, a main cable B, stretched between the towers and suitably anchored, a carriage C, arranged, as

usual, to travel on the main cable, the endless traversing rope or haul-rope D, which is actuated by a drum D of an engine 10, and a hoisting-rope or fall-rope E, which is actu' ated by a winding-drum E.

The traversing rope D is shown as arranged in a well-known manner, being secured at one end to the carriage C, as at (1, then extended to a sheave d on the tower A, then to the drum D, around which it is given several turns, then upward to a sheave d on tower A, then to and around a sheave d on the opposite tower A, and then back to the carriage, to which it is secured, as at d whereby the drum D may be caused to move the rope D and the carriage in either direction.

The fall-rope or hoisting-rope E in the system illustrated extends from its drum E upward to a sheave e on the adjacent tower A, then to a sheave e on carriage G, then around the fall-block l5 upward to and over a second sheave e on the carriage, and then to the opposite tower A, to which it-is secured, as at 6 In accordance with our present invention two series of carriers F and F are provided, adapted to travelon the main cable B and support the fall-rope E at each side of the carriage.

The button-rope G has one end connected with the carriage, at one side of the latter, as at g, then passes over the guide-pulleys H H on one tower, then to and around similar pulleys H H on the other tower, and then back to a connection with the carriage, as at g whereby as the carriageis caused to travelin either direction the button-rope G will be moved correspondingly. O n the rope G are two series of buttons g, one series on each side of the carriage, said. buttons being properly spaced and corresponding to the series of carriers F F. The buttons of each series gradually decrease in size the nearer they are located to the carriage, and the carriers are formed with openings f, the openings of each series being graduated in size to permit only certain of the buttons to pass. Thus the button nearest to the carriage will engage the carrier nearest to the carriage while passing freely through the other carriers, the next button will engage the "next carrier, and so on throughout each series of buttons and carrrers.

The carriers are each provided with a wheel f to travel on the main cable or with the usual blocks and with a sheave f on which the lower run-of the traversing rope rests, and

- each carrier F has in addition a sheave f on which the fall-rope E is supported.-

With the described arrangement it willbe seen that the carriage C when moved toward a terminal of the cableway will collect the carriers in front of it-'say the carriers F- near the said tower, as seen at the right in Fig. 2, and during a reverse movement of the carriage the movable button-rope G will distribute these carriers at proper intervals in the rear of the carriage, as shown at the right of Fig. 3, the button-rope being positively moved in both directions by the carriage.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a cableway having suitable towers, a main cable, a carriage, a traversing rope or haul-rope for moving the carriage, and a fallrope orhoisting-rope extending between the towers, the combination of two series of carriers, one series at each side of the carriage, and a movable button-rope extending between the towers and to opposite sides of the carriage, the said button-rope having two series of buttons corresponding with the series of carriers to distribute the latter, and being positively actuated in both directions by the carriage.

2. A cableway comprising a main cable, a

carriage, a traversing rope or hanl-rope'for the carriage, afall-block, a fall-rope, drums for the said ropes, the said fall-rope being secured by one end at one terminal of the cableway, then extending to the carriage, then to the fall-block, back to the carriage, then to its drum at the opposite terminal, two series of carriers for said fall-rope, one series being arranged at each side of the carriage, and a movable button-rope having two series of buttons corresponding to the series of carriers, the said button-rope extending from the carriage to one terminal, then over the opposite terminal and then back to a connection with the carriage.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ASHER LAMBERT. JAMES G. DELANEY. Witnesses:

T. M. WATSON, J r., R0131. L. HATFIELD. 

